Published in Cuepoint·Apr 29, 2015Faith No More’s First Album in 18 Years is Good… Really Good“The reason it takes so long is getting to the point where you trust each other…” — When Sol Invictus was announced, mainstream reaction to the first Faith No More album in nearly 18 years was, essentially, “Remember the 80s? The ‘Epic’ guys are back!” It was at once entirely expected, exceedingly dumb and largely reasonable. “Epic” drove The Real Thing to platinum sales in 1989. Follow-up…Music8 min read
Published in Cuepoint·Feb 4, 2015Betting the Grammys for Fun and, Less Likely, ProfitLet’s say, for the sake of argument, that you lost a bunch of money on the Seahawks on Sunday. Purely hypothetical, of course. There’s no way you were—again, hypothetically—counting your (hypothetical) money in the waning seconds of the Super Bowl, an unstoppable Marshawn Lynch with 102 yards in his pocket…Culture5 min read